Clare, MICHIGAN - The Calkins - 1908 for Sale

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Clare, MICHIGAN - The Calkins - 1908:
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Clare, MICHIGAN - The Calkins - 1908: Clare is a city mostly in Clare County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A small portion of the city extends south into Isabella County. The population was 3,254 at the 2020 census. Clare was settled as early as 1870 and contains two listings on the National Register of Historic Places: the Clare Downtown Historic District and the Clare Congregational Church. The city is located along the junction of U.S. Route 10 and U.S. Route 127, and each highway has a business route (Bus. 10 and Bus. US 127) through the downtown area. M-115 also runs through the city. Clare was founded with the coming of the Pere Marquette railroad in 1870. It was named after the county, which was named after County Clare in Ireland. The Clare post office opened on January 20, 1871. It incorporated as a village in 1879 and as a city in 1891. \"\'The Calkins\' was the fond name of Clare\'s Calkins House hotel, once [the] pride of the town and indeed as famous in its day, as the Doherty hotel is now. The original part of the building is that which is surrounded by the wide porches and topped by the round towers. The square wing in the rear was added ten years after the building of the original. The Calkins house burned in 1920 and the Doherty was erected in its place.\" (Clare Sentinel, 25 September 1953, p. 4, Col. 1. This Divided Back Era postcard, mailed in 1908, is in good condition but shows some edge wear and some minor scraping.